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Topic review: To Be Alive. To be alive and feeling free, to have everyone in your family to be alive in every was

I love the internet; I just typed in the first lines of this song and up it came. When I was in high school, I played and sang this with my choir of 8th graders for the new folk masses in the 60s in Catholic Church in Sacramento. It was the go-to song to get even the older traditionalists to sing out. Thanks for publishing it; brings back inspiration that comes at a great time now that we’re all faced with mortality.

I love the internet; I just typed in the first lines of this song and up it came. When I was in high school, I played and sang this with my choir of 8th graders for the new folk masses in the 60s in Catholic Church in Sacramento. It was the go-to song to get even the older traditionalists to sing out. Thanks for publishing it; brings back inspiration that comes at a great time now that we’re all faced with mortality.

Always sang this at our folk masses at the Catholic coed camp where I was a counselor in the 1960's. We recently had a big counselor reunion and sang it once again. Everyone loved sharing it once more!

Always sang this at our folk masses at the Catholic coed camp where I was a counselor in the 1960's. We recently had a big counselor reunion and sang it once again. Everyone loved sharing it once more!

One Song for which I never forgot the melody or lyrics!
But as I child I thought it a sad song - cuz my big brother was lost in a car accident.... So we didn't "have everyone in our family".
But I still sing it and have since come to the knowledge that those who go before us remain in our family and we'll all join together on the other side someday.
So looking forward to seeing that brother of mine!

One Song for which I never forgot the melody or lyrics!
But as I child I thought it a sad song - cuz my big brother was lost in a car accident.... So we didn't "have everyone in our family".
But I still sing it and have since come to the knowledge that those who go before us remain in our family and we'll all join together on the other side someday.
So looking forward to seeing that brother of mine!

I first heard this song in 1969. I always thought it was Episcopalian because that's how I came accross it. Ah, the good old days of ecumenism. Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians and Methodists all got together and we had intercommunion, which I later learned we weren't suppossed to do. Happy carefree days.

I first heard this song in 1969. I always thought it was Episcopalian because that's how I came accross it. Ah, the good old days of ecumenism. Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians and Methodists all got together and we had intercommunion, which I later learned we weren't suppossed to do. Happy carefree days.